Buckle



(No Model.)

8 T. O. POTTER.

BUGKLE.

No. 288,808; Patented Sept. 5, 18882 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS O. POTTER, OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 263,806, dated September 5, 1882. Application ined June 29,1382. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THoMAs O. POTTER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented anew and usefullmprovementin Buckles, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature, in which@ Figure l represents in elevation one cnd of a pair of Suspenders with the buckle in place thereon.V Fig. 3 `is a plan of the blank employed in making a portion of the buckle. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line a: .fr of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an end view ofaportion ofa blank, showing a inodication in construction hereinafter referred to. Fig. 5 is a portion of a horizontal section, which shows the construction of a buckle made from the modified form of .blank shown in Fig. 4..

`A is the blank, from which the buckle back, sides, and hook, when used, are formed. It has the extensions or wings a, which are bent up at right angles to the main portion or back, a', ofthe buckle, for the purposes hereinafter described. I also form from the blank by striking up or by cutting and bending the supports a2, parallel with the end projections or wings et, which are perforated to furnish the hearin gs a3 for the pivot ends a4 of the crossbar a5 of the jaw. The end portions or wings, a, serve to cover the ends ofthe pivots, which project through the supporting-pieces a3, and when the construction shown in Figs. 2 and which cover the ends of the pivots, shaft, or

crossbar carrying the buckle-jaw, and are so large that they do not serve as hearings in any case for said pivots, but simply as caps for covering their ends;

In case the construction shown in Figs. 4 and 5 is employed, it will be unnecessary to forni sockets in the wings a6, as the supports a3 are set in from the parts so far that such sockets are unnecessary, and Iv prefer, when this last-named construction is used, to bend the ends a7 of the'wings a3 outwardly to bridge the space between tliein and the parts a6, as shown in Fig. 5.

By this construction a cheap buckle and a secure and strong bearing for the pivot ends of the tongue or cross-bar carrying the jaw are obtained.

Having thus fully described my invention, I`

claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States--- p A buckle having the supports or projections a2, formed from the body or back thereof, and furnishing bearings for the pivot ends ot' the cross-bar a5 of theJaw, and having alsotheindependent caps or wings a, to protect or cover the ends ot' the pivots, also formed from the body of the buckle, all substantially as and for the purposes described.

THOS. O. POTTER.

Witnesses:

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, WILLARD C. Foefer. 

